E-Books Update

In the SearchDay article about Google working with libraries, I mentioned Project Gutenberg. This service has been offering eBooks since 1971. Its founder, Michael Hart, just sent over some updated numbers about what Project Gutenberg offers.

Another project that I mentioned in my SearchDay article, is the Million Book Project from The Internet Archive.

What is it? …the goal of The Million Book Project is to digitize a million books by 2005. The task will be accomplished by scanning the books and indexing their full text with OCR technology. The undertaking will create a free-to-read, searchable digital library the approximate size of the combined libraries at Carnegie Mellon University, and one much bigger than the holdings of any high school library.

Brewster Kahle recently shared some news about how the MBP project is progressing.

+ “The Million Books Project will be posting 10’s of thousands of books later this month on the Archive and elsewhere. These were scanned in India by the Indian government.”

This week, both LinkedIn and Facebook are beefing up their paid social offerings in different ways, while Google seeks to cut off Adwords revenues for fake news sites. And might Google be favouring desktop over its own AMP in its upcoming mobile-first index?

Here we’ll take a look at the basic things you need to know in regards to search engine optimisation, a discipline that everyone in your organisation should at least be aware of, if not have a decent technical understanding.